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aflatoxin African Postharvest Loss Information System (APHLIS) African Postharvest Loss Information System (APHLIS) agro-ecology apple (Malus domestica) apple storage artificial neural networks banana cultivars banana flour banana genome groups banana sub-genome groups banana varieties beetroot peel beriberi biopesticide Callosobruchus maculatus capacity building Carbohydrate: Protein ratio carbon footprint cardiovascular disease cashew cereal cereals certified seed chlorine chlorophyll Circular ideal-point regression climate change climate change and postharvest agriculture climate change and variability climate change impacts composition conidia Consumer preference controlled atmosphere cool chains crop storage cut-edge decision tree decision-support tools diabetes discolouration dynamic controlled atmosphere elements environmental impact farmers handling fish fillet fluorescence food loss and waste Food security food waste fruits genome groups germination rate grain protectants Grain storage Synthetic pesticide efficacy Insect feeding dust and chaff Grain damage Prostephanus truncatus Grain storage losses grain storage management hermetic grain storage Hermetic storage containers hermetic storage facilities IC 50% improved storage practices Increased temperature effect innovation systems insect grain damage and weight loss insect grain damage prediction integrated crop management learning alliances Legume crops legumes lettuce linear discriminant analysis loss estimates Lychee Maize grain storage Market acceptance Metharizium flavoviride modelling modified atmosphere nomenclature non-communicable diseases Nutrition nutrition security obesity ochratoxin pest dynamics pesticide degradation pesticide tolerance phenolic compounds PHL metrics phytochemicals pinking plastic packaging postharvest postharvest grain losses Postharvest insect pests postharvest loss postharvest loss reduction postharvest loss reduction interventions postharvest losses postharvest management postharvest management policy dialogue prebiotics prediction model preference principal component analysis processing Product optimization production constraints Prostephanus truncates protectants qualitative postharvest losses resistant starch respiration rate respiratory quotient Response surface methodology roots and tubers SafePod Seed quality seed yam simulation Sitophilus zeamais smallholder grain storage social learning processes Sorghum sorghum grain storage spice mix storage Storage insect pests storage pest management stored-sorghum insect pests sub-Saharan Africa support vector machine sustainable food systems sweetpotato handling sweetpotato marketing Synthetic and non-synthetic grain synthetic grain protectants Synthetic pesticides systematic scoping review Tanzania taxonomy TBA temperature trade-offs training materials Unregistered botanical pesticides unripe banana flour vegetable and mineral oils vegetables Zimbabwe

Number of items at this level: 167.

aflatoxin

Satheesh, Neela, Parmar, Aditya ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2662-1900, Fanta, Solomon Workneh and Stathers, Tanya ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7767-6186 (2023) Postharvest handling practices and mycotoxin occurrence along the dried berbere chilli pepper value chain: a case study from Northern Ethiopia. Journal of Stored Products Research, 103:102157. ISSN 0022-474X (doi:10.1016/j.jspr.2023.102157)

African Postharvest Loss Information System (APHLIS)

Stathers, Tanya ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7767-6186, Ognakossan, Kukom Edoh, Priebe, Jan, Mvumi, Brighton M. and Tran, Bruno M.D. (2018) Counting losses to cut losses: quantifying legume postharvest losses to help achieve food and nutrition security. In: 12th International Working Conference on Stored Product Protection (IWCSPP) in Berlin, Germany, October 7-11, 2018. Julius Kühn-Institut, Germany, pp. 8-18. ISBN 978-3955470654 ISSN 1868-9892 (Print), 2199-921X (Online) (doi:10.5073/jka.2018.463.004)

African Postharvest Loss Information System (APHLIS)

Stathers, Tanya ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7767-6186, Ognakossan, Kukom Edoh, Priebe, Jan and Sonntag, Frank (2021) Examining Legume postharvest loss data to expand the crop coverage of the African postharvest losses information system. In: 3rd All Africa Postharvest Congress and Exhibition, 13-16 September, 2021, Virtual and AUC Headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. (Unpublished)

agro-ecology

Tran, Bruno and Hodges, Rick (2018) Post-harvest management of sorghum. In: Rooney, William, (ed.) Achieving Sustainable Cultivation of Sorghum: Volume 1: Genetics, Breeding and Production Techniques. Burleigh Dodds Series in Agricultural Science (31). Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing, Cambridge, UK. ISBN 978-1786761200

apple (Malus domestica)

Rees, Deborah ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3541-0424, Bishop, David, Schaefer, James, Colgan, Richard, Thurston, Karen, Fisher, Rosalind ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5609-6772 and Duff, Andrew (2021) SafePod: A respiration chamber to characterise apple fruit response to storage atmospheres. Postharvest Biology and Technology, 181:111674. ISSN 0925-5214 (doi:10.1016/j.postharvbio.2021.111674)

apple storage

Fisher, Rosalind ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5609-6772, Thurston, Karen, Colgan, Richard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0653-5845 and Rees, Deborah ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3541-0424 (2023) Monitoring low O2 stress in apples: what we can learn from chlorophyll fluorescence and respiratory characteristics. Postharvest Biology and Technology, 208:112661. ISSN 0925-5214 (Print), 1873-2356 (Online) (doi:10.1016/j.postharvbio.2023.112661)

artificial neural networks

Maseko, Kayise Hypercia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9926-8714, Regnier, Thierry ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7762-9905, Anyasi, Tonna Ashim, Du Plessis, Belinda ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4147-9313, Da Silva, Laura Suzzanne, Kutu, Funso Raphael ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8162-0329 and Wokadala, Obiro Cuthbert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0292-400X (2021) Discrimination of Musa banana genomic and sub-genomic groups based on multi-elemental fingerprints and chemometrics. Journal of Food Composition and Analysis, 106:104334. ISSN 0889-1575 (Print), 1096-0481 (Online) (doi:10.1016/j.jfca.2021.104334)

banana cultivars

Maseko, Kayise Hypercia, Regnier, Thierry, Meiring, Belinda, Wokadala, Obiro Cuthbert and Anyasi, Tonna A. (2023) Musa species variation, production, and the application of its processed flour: a review. Scientia Horticulturae, 325:112688. pp. 1-16. ISSN 0304-4238 (Print), 1879-1018 (Online) (doi:10.1016/j.scienta.2023.112688)

banana flour

banana genome groups

banana sub-genome groups

banana varieties

beetroot peel

El-Beltagi, Hossam S., El-Mogy, Mohamed M., Parmar, Aditya ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2662-1900, Mansour, Abdallah Tageldein, Shalaby, Tarek A. and Ali, Marwa Rashad (2022) Phytochemical characterization and utilization of dried red beetroot (Beta vulgaris) peel extract in maintaining the quality of Nile Tilapia fish fillet. Antioxidants, 11 (5):906. ISSN 2076-3921 (Online) (doi:10.3390/antiox11050906)

beriberi

biopesticide

Stathers, T. E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7767-6186, Moore, D. and Prior, C. (1993) The effect of different temperatures on the viability of Metarhizium flavoviride Conidia stored in vegetable and mineral oils. Journal of Invertebrate Pathology, 62. pp. 111-115. ISSN 0022-2011 (doi:10.1006/jipa.1993.1085)

Callosobruchus maculatus

Stathers, Tanya E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7767-6186, Arnold, Sarah E. J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7345-0529, Rumney, Corinne J. and Hopson, Clare (2020) Measuring the nutritional cost of insect infestation of stored maize and cowpea. Food Security, 12 (2). pp. 285-308. ISSN 1876-4517 (Print), 1876-4525 (Online) (doi:10.1007/s12571-019-00997-w)

capacity building

Stathers, Tanya ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7767-6186 and Mvumi, Brighton M. (2020) Challenges and initiatives in reducing postharvest food losses and food waste: sub-Saharan Africa. In: Yahia, Elhadi M., (ed.) Preventing food losses and waste to achieve food security and sustainability. Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing, pp. 729-786. ISBN 978-1786763006 (doi:10.19103/AS.2019.0053.31)

Carbohydrate: Protein ratio

carbon footprint

Stathers, Tanya ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7767-6186 and Lamboll, Richard (2023) Exploring the complex relationships between food loss and waste, climate change and the environment to support informed sustainable food system transformation decisions with a focus on sub-Saharan Africa. Enterprise Development and Microfinance, 33 (4). pp. 1-34. ISSN 1755-1978 (Print), 1755-1986 (Online) (doi:10.3362/1755-1986.22.00071)

cardiovascular disease

Dibakoane, Siphosethu Richard, Du Plessis, Belinda, Da Silva, Laura Suzanne, Anyasi, Tonna Ashim, Emmambux, Mohammad Naushad ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9377-6056, Mlambo, Victor and Wokadala, Obiro Cuthbert (2022) Nutraceutical properties of unripe banana flour resistant starch: a review. Starch - Stärke, 75 (9-10):2200041. ISSN 0038-9056 (Print), 1521-379X (Online) (doi:10.1002/star.202200041)

cashew

Martin, P.J., Topper, C.P., Bashiru, R.A., Boma, F., De Waal, D., Harries, H.C., Kasuga, L.J., Katinila, N., Kikoka, L.P., Lamboll, R., Maddison, A.C., Majule, A.E., Masawe, P.A., Millanzi, K.J., Nathaniels, N.Q., Shomari, S.H., Sijaona, M.E. and Stathers, T. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7767-6186 (1997) Cashew Nut Production in Tanzania: Constraints and Progress through Integrated Crop Management. Crop Protection, 16 (1). pp. 5-14. ISSN 0261-2194 (doi:10.1016/S0261-2194(96)00067-1)

cereal

cereals

Stathers, Tanya ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7767-6186, Holcroft, Deirdre, Kitinoja, Lisa, Mvumi, Brighton, English, Alicia, Omotilewa, Oluwatoba, Kocher, Megan, Ault, Jessica and Torero, Maximo (2020) A scoping review of interventions for crop postharvest loss reduction in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Nature Sustainability, 3 (10). pp. 821-835. ISSN 2398-9629 (Online) (doi:10.1038/s41893-020-00622-1)

certified seed

Boadu, Paul, Aidoo, Robert, Yankyera, Kwasi-Ohene, Kleih, Ulrich, Abdoulaye, Tahirou, Maroya, Norbert, Orchard, John and Bekoe, Stephen (2018) Farmers’ perception about quality of planted seed yam and their preferences for certified seed yam in Ghana. International Journal of Food and Agricultural Economics, 6 (3). pp. 71-83. ISSN 2147-8988 (Print), 2149-3766 (Online)

chlorine

Fisher, Lorraine H.C. and Rees, Deborah ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3541-0424 (2022) The effect of wash water chlorine content on the pinking discolouration of fresh cut Iceberg lettuce. International Journal of Postharvest Technology and Innovation, 8 (2/3). pp. 184-195. ISSN 1744-7550 (Print), 1744-7569 (Online) (doi:10.1504/IJPTI.2022.121880)

chlorophyll

Circular ideal-point regression

Precoppe, Marcelo ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7937-5782, Nagle, Marcus, Mahayothee, Busarakorn, Udomkun, Patchimaporn, Janjai, Serm and Müller, Joachim (2014) Optimal physicochemical properties of dried litchis for Thai consumers. International Journal of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, 7 (5). pp. 103-110. ISSN 1934-6344 (Print), 1934-6352 (Online) (doi:10.3965/j.ijabe.20140705.011)

climate change

Singano, Charles D., Mvumi, Brighton M. and Stathers, Tanya ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7767-6186 (2019) Effectiveness of grain storage facilities and protectants in controlling stored-maize insect pests in a climate-risk prone area of Shire Valley, southern Malawi. Journal of Stored Products Research, 83. pp. 130-147. ISSN 0022-474X (doi:10.1016/j.jspr.2019.06.007)

Singano, Charles D., Mvumi, Brighton M., Stathers, Tanya E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7767-6186, Machekano, Honest and Nyamukondiwa, Casper (2019) What does global warming mean for stored-grain protection? Options for Prostephanus truncatus (Horn) control at increased temperatures. Journal of Stored Products Research, 85:101532. ISSN 0022-474X (doi:10.1016/j.jspr.2019.101532)

climate change and postharvest agriculture

Macdonald, Mubayiwa, Mvumi, Brighton M, Stathers, Tanya ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7767-6186, Mlambo, Shaw and Nyabako, Tinashe (2021) Field evaluation of hermetic and synthetic pesticide-based technologies in smallholder sorghum grain storage in hot and arid climates. Scientific Reports, 11:3692. ISSN 2045-2322 (Online) (doi:10.1038/s41598-021-83086-3)

climate change and variability

Mubayiwa, Macdonald, Mvumi, Brighton, M., Stathers, Tanya ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7767-6186, Mlambo, Shaw and Nyabako, Tinashe (2018) Blanket application rates for synthetic grain protectants across agro-climatic zones: Do they work? Evidence from field efficacy trials using sorghum grain. Crop Protection, 109. ISSN 0261-2194 (doi:10.1016/j.cropro.2018.01.016)

climate change impacts

Nyabako, Tinashe, Mvumi, Brighton M., Stathers, Tanya ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7767-6186, Machekano, Honest M. and Siziba, S. (2020) Smallholder grain postharvest management in a variable climate: Practices and perceptions of smallholder farmers and their service-providers in semi-arid areas. Environment, Development and Sustainability, 23 (6). pp. 9196-9222. ISSN 1387-585X (Print), 1573-2975 (Online) (doi:10.1007/s10668-020-01019-y)

composition

conidia

Consumer preference

controlled atmosphere

cool chains

crop storage

cut-edge

decision tree

Nyabako, Tinashe, Mvumi, Brighton M., Stathers, Tanya ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7767-6186, Mlambo, Shaw and Mubayiwa, Macdonald (2020) Predicting Prostephanus truncatus (Horn) (Coleoptera: Bostrichidae) populations and associated grain damage in smallholder farmers’ maize stores: a machine learning approach. Journal of Stored Products Research, 87:101592. ISSN 0022-474X (doi:10.1016/j.jspr.2020.101592)

decision-support tools

diabetes

discolouration

dynamic controlled atmosphere

elements

environmental impact

farmers handling

fish fillet

fluorescence

food loss and waste

Stathers, Tanya ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7767-6186, Holcroft, Deirdre, Kitinoja, Lisa, Mvumi, Brighton, English, Alicia, Omotilewa, Oluwatoba, Kocher, Megan, Ault, Jessica and Torero, Maximo (2021) Interventions for reducing crop postharvest losses in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic evidence synthesis and gap map. In: 3rd All Africa Postharvest Congress and Exhibition, 13-16 September, 2021, Virtual and AUC Headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. (Unpublished)

Food security

Mlambo, Shaw, Mvumi, Brighton M, Stathers, Tanya ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7767-6186, Mubayiwa, Macdonald and Nyabako, Tinashe (2017) Field efficacy of hermetic and other maize grain storage options under smallholder farmer management. Crop Protection, 98. pp. 198-210. ISSN 0261-2194 (doi:10.1016/j.cropro.2017.04.001)

food waste

Fayad, Ramzi, Kandemir, Cansu, Pickering, Jack, Reynolds, Christian, Koh, Lenny, Greenwood, Sarah, Parsons, Rorie, Fisher, Lorraine and Rees, Deborah ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3541-0424 (2022) Minimising plastic packaging and household food waste: a new approach using discrete event simulation. In: 29th International Annual EurOMA Conference "Brilliance in resilience: operations and supply chain management’s role in achieving a sustainable future", 3rd - 6th July 2022, University of Sussex Business School & Berlin, Germany.

fruits

genome groups

germination rate

grain protectants

Grain storage Synthetic pesticide efficacy Insect feeding dust and chaff Grain damage Prostephanus truncatus

Mlambo, Shaw, Mvumi, Brighton M., Stathers, Tanya ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7767-6186, Mubayiwa, Macdonald and Nyabako, Tinashe (2018) Field efficacy and persistence of synthetic pesticidal dusts on stored maize grain under contrasting agro-climatic conditions. Journal of Stored Products Research, 76. pp. 129-139. ISSN 0022-474X (doi:10.1016/j.jspr.2018.01.009)

Grain storage losses

grain storage management

Ngwenyama, Patrick, Siziba, Shepherd, Nyanga, Loveness, K., Stathers, Tanya ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7767-6186, Mubayiwa, Macdonald, Mlambo, Shaw, Nyabako, Tinashe, Bechoff, Aurelie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8141-4448, Shee, Apurba ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1836-9637 and Mvumi, Brighton, M. (2023) Determinants of smallholder farmers’ maize grain storage protection practices and understanding of the nutritional aspects of grain postharvest losses. Food Security. ISSN 1876-4517 (Print), 1876-4525 (Online) (doi:10.1007/s12571-023-01349-5)

hermetic grain storage

Hermetic storage containers

hermetic storage facilities

IC 50%

improved storage practices

Increased temperature effect

innovation systems

Mvumi, Brighton M., Morris, Mike, Stathers, Tanya E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7767-6186 and Riwa, William (2008) Doing things differently: Post-harvest innovation learning alliances in Tanzania and Zimbabwe. In: Sanginga, Pascal, Waters-Bayer, Ann, Kaaria, Susan, Njuki, Jemimah and Wettasinha, Chesha, (eds.) Innovation Africa: Enriching Farmers' Livelihoods. Routledge, London, pp. 186-202. ISBN 978-1844076710 (doi:10.4324/9781849771733)

insect grain damage and weight loss

insect grain damage prediction

integrated crop management

learning alliances

Legume crops

legumes

lettuce

linear discriminant analysis

loss estimates

Lychee

Maize grain storage

Market acceptance

Metharizium flavoviride

modelling

modified atmosphere

nomenclature

non-communicable diseases

Nutrition

nutrition security

obesity

ochratoxin

pest dynamics

pesticide degradation

pesticide tolerance

phenolic compounds

PHL metrics

phytochemicals

pinking

plastic packaging

postharvest

postharvest grain losses

Postharvest insect pests

postharvest loss

postharvest loss reduction

Stathers, Tanya ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7767-6186, Holcroft, Deirdre, Kitinoja, Lisa, Mvumi, Brighton, English, Alicia, Omotilewa, Oluwatoba, Kocher, Megan, Ault, Jessica and Torero, Maximo (2021) Interventions for reducing crop postharvest losses in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic evidence synthesis and gap map. In: 3rd All Africa Postharvest Congress and Exhibition, 13-16 September, 2021, Virtual and AUC Headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. (Unpublished)

postharvest loss reduction interventions

postharvest losses

postharvest management

postharvest management policy dialogue

prebiotics

prediction model

preference

principal component analysis

processing

Product optimization

production constraints

Prostephanus truncates

protectants

qualitative postharvest losses

resistant starch

respiration rate

respiratory quotient

Response surface methodology

roots and tubers

SafePod

Seed quality

seed yam

simulation

Sitophilus zeamais

smallholder grain storage

Mvumi, Brighton M. and Stathers, Tanya ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7767-6186 (2020) Supporting smallholder farmers in developing countries to improve postharvest management of staple grains: the role of loss reduction technologies. In: Maier, Dirk E., (ed.) Advances in Postharvest Management of Cereals and Grains. Burleigh Dodds Series in Agricultural Science (88). Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing Limited, Cambridge, UK. ISBN 978-1786767691 (doi:10.19103/AS.2020.0072.16)

social learning processes

Sorghum

sorghum grain storage

spice mix

storage

Storage insect pests

storage pest management

stored-sorghum insect pests

sub-Saharan Africa

support vector machine

sustainable food systems

Stathers, Tanya ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7767-6186, Holcroft, Deirdre, Kitinoja, Lisa, Mvumi, Brighton, English, Alicia, Omotilewa, Oluwatoba, Kocher, Megan, Ault, Jessica and Torero, Maximo (2021) Interventions for reducing crop postharvest losses in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic evidence synthesis and gap map. In: 3rd All Africa Postharvest Congress and Exhibition, 13-16 September, 2021, Virtual and AUC Headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. (Unpublished)

sweetpotato handling

Stathers, T. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7767-6186, Low, J., Amagloh, F., Carey, E., Kyalo, G., Agili, S., Nyotumba, B. and Were, M. (2019) HANDLE WITH CARE: maintaining the quality and value of your sweetpotato roots during and after harvest through better practice. Manual. International Potato Centre (CIP), Nairobi, Kenya.

sweetpotato marketing

Synthetic and non-synthetic grain

synthetic grain protectants

Synthetic pesticides

systematic scoping review

Stathers, Tanya ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7767-6186, Holcroft, Deirdre, Kitinoja, Lisa, Mvumi, Brighton, English, Alicia, Omotilewa, Oluwatoba, Kocher, Megan, Ault, Jessica and Torero, Maximo (2021) Interventions for reducing crop postharvest losses in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic evidence synthesis and gap map. In: 3rd All Africa Postharvest Congress and Exhibition, 13-16 September, 2021, Virtual and AUC Headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. (Unpublished)